Corzelius v. Oliver

Curtis F. Corzelius and Ann Yates Oliver were married in 1938 and divorced December 26, 1942. They executed a separation agreement June 1, 1942. In it he acknowledged he owed her $209,450.14, of which $172,450.14 was secured by deed of trust and chattel mortgage liens on certain Colorado ranch properties, ranching equipment, and cattle. Subsequently, she grew uneasy about the debt and asked him to convey her the mortgaged properties. This he did on January 5, 1944, when she was still a single woman. It was later that she married Robert H. Oliver.

Contemporaneously with the delivery of the deed…